“I was kind of like a cosmic dolphin,” I said to my friend as I described the waking dream I had while meditating. Angela Lam of Jesus Collective had led us in a time of imaginative prayer. She had painted us a scene in which Jesus was present in some way that I forget, butContinue reading “Imaginative Prayer: Am I a cosmic dolphin?”
Category Archives: creativity
Forcing It – a Friday sonnet
My poet’s pen is a bit dried up of late. Not sure why. This poem form last year gets at some of the feelings of trying to make something happen that isn’t happening. I like the suggested submission to the concrete shards on the urban beach most. Something about smoothed over brokenness seems to beContinue reading “Forcing It – a Friday sonnet”
Long for the Light Like a Marine Iguana Must
My family has a tradition of writing Christmas stories. Here’s one of mine from a few years ago. Christmas in Cold Blood Santa Fe Island in the Galapagos 4:48am GALT (GMT -6hrs) An hour and five minutes before sunrise on December 25, 2011 The sun is rising. It is still dark but he knows theContinue reading “Long for the Light Like a Marine Iguana Must”
Call God the Pulse: New Language from a New Anthem
My friends Dan and Pat McGowan have created a masterpiece. The newest album from their band, The Tea Club (Pat McGowan, Dan McGowan, Jamie Wolff, Dan Monda and Joe Dorsey), is a gift to the world. I can’t stop listening to the almost 28 minute final track, “Creature.” This post is an unauthorized interpretation ofContinue reading “Call God the Pulse: New Language from a New Anthem”
So I Started Writing Sonnets
Six sonnets I wrote. Sonnets help me meditate and hopefully they help you see something I see, or better see something you’ve seen.
Saving our Imaginations from Fortnite
I am reading A Wrinkle in Time to my son, Oliver, who is 7 years old. One of my goals is to teach him to use and develop his imagination. I actually stop as we’re reading to encourage him to be still and actively imagine what he’s hearing. It’s hard for him to not fidget with somethingContinue reading “Saving our Imaginations from Fortnite”
There is Beauty We Don’t See
Sunday night turned was poetry night at Circle of Hope’s 7pm meeting on Marlton Pike in Pennsauken. Joyce Fazio and a team led us to consider how poetry can tap us into a deeper connection with ourselves and reality. Words! “Words are a super power,” Scott Sorrentino said. Jesus, in John 1 is named theContinue reading “There is Beauty We Don’t See”
Swimming Under Niagara Falls with Jesus
At the Lent retreat this weekend we were led to practice prayer of imagination. Here’s a story I wrote about my experience: I’m on the Maid of the Mist, the boat that takes tourist into the clouds at the base of Niagara Falls. If the light is right, there are rainbows everywhere. The light wasn’tContinue reading “Swimming Under Niagara Falls with Jesus”
Why not the Whole Delaware Watershed?
We live in the megalopolis- the swath of concrete dominated land that stretches from Washington DC all the way up to Boston. In my neck of this urban and suburban mass of human concentration, the boundaries slip and slide like hikers boots on wet, mossy rocks. One minute you’re in Haddon Township, the next minuteContinue reading “Why not the Whole Delaware Watershed?”
Creativity, the Holy Spirit and Everything in Between
In my job as Development Pastor at Circle of Hope Broad and Washington I am always on the hunt for a good idea- a new flyer idea, an idea for an event that could attract some new friends, a new idea for how to engage someone at an event in the city. Doing so muchContinue reading “Creativity, the Holy Spirit and Everything in Between”
Today, if you hear his voice 